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Leidos (United States)

In research, Leidos (United States) stands highest in Life Sciences (#2,690 of 7,800 worldwide), Physical Sciences (#6,410 of 12,888 worldwide) and Medicine (#5,386 of 10,443 worldwide), 2022–2025.

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World rank, 2022–2025
#5,182
of 28,054 · #3,372 all time
Rank in United States
#713
of 4,192
Research works
1.7k
▲ 18% vs 2013–17
Citations
45k
27.1 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
17.2%
record average 16.5%
Open access
58%
world 28%

What is Leidos (United States) known for in research?

The fields where it stands highest, 2022–2025, ranked among every institution above the floor in each field.

FieldWorld rankWhere that sitsTop-10% rateWorksAll time
Life SciencesDomain #2,690 of 7,800 25.3%74 #1689
Physical SciencesDomain #6,410 of 12,888 10.0%156 #5014
MedicineField #5,386 of 10,443 22.4%99 #3977
Health SciencesDomain #6,397 of 11,982 21.3%121 #5317
EngineeringField #5,703 of 6,636 8.7%67 #5569

Each strip is that field’s whole ranked pool, with the notch where Leidos (United States) sits in it, in the colour of the band that rank falls in. The track under the rate is the rate itself: it carries no world mark, because the world rate differs by field (from about 6% to 21% in this record).

Which of those standings moved

The same fields on both windows: where it stood over the whole record, and where it stands in 2022–2025. The distance is the story, and it is the one thing the two rank columns above cannot show.

  1. Life Sciences#1,689 #2,690
  2. Physical Sciences#5,014 #6,410
  3. Medicine#3,977 #5,386
  4. Health Sciences#5,317 #6,397
  5. Engineering#5,569 #5,703
all time2022–2025, better2022–2025, worse

A dot further right is a better standing. Fields it was not ranked in over the whole record are left out.

Field profile

Location quotient across every field it publishes in: outside the ring is more than an institution of this size would be expected to publish, inside it is less.

Agricultural and Biological Sciences: 0.38× its world share, 7 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 1.92× its world share, 42 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Immunology and Microbiology: 4.21× its world share, 17 worksImmunology and Micro…Neuroscience: 0.98× its world share, 7 worksNeurosciencePharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 0.59× its world share, 1 worksPharmacology, Toxico…Chemical Engineering: 1.26× its world share, 2 worksChemical EngineeringChemistry: 0.67× its world share, 4 worksChemistryComputer Science: 0.98× its world share, 31 worksComputer ScienceEarth and Planetary Sciences: 1.04× its world share, 7 worksEarth and Planetary …Energy: 0.40× its world share, 2 worksEnergyEngineering: 1.09× its world share, 67 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 0.91× its world share, 18 worksEnvironmental ScienceMaterials Science: 0.50× its world share, 7 worksMaterials ScienceMathematics: 0.29× its world share, 1 worksMathematicsPhysics and Astronomy: 1.83× its world share, 17 worksPhysics and AstronomyDentistry: 0.56× its world share, 1 worksDentistryHealth Professions: 1.74× its world share, 19 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 1.26× its world share, 99 worksMedicineNursing: 0.28× its world share, 1 worksNursingVeterinary: 3.36× its world share, 2 worksVeterinaryArts and Humanities: 0.19× its world share, 2 worksArts and HumanitiesBusiness, Management and Accounting: 0.27× its world share, 4 worksBusiness, Management…Decision Sciences: 1.20× its world share, 5 worksDecision SciencesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 0.14× its world share, 1 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 2.13× its world share, 27 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 0.38× its world share, 20 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Immunology and Microbiology, 4.2×. Every wedge is a field page.

Who are the top researchers at Leidos (United States)?

Ranked on the composite score, Fang Zhou, Aaron Jensen and Serguei Ovtchinnikov lead among researchers whose main affiliation is Leidos (United States).

  1. 1 Fang Zhou United States · #635,869 worldwide 54 citations · 24 works
  2. 2 Aaron Jensen United States · #715,032 worldwide 21 citations · 22 works
  3. 3 Serguei Ovtchinnikov United States · #1,095,740 worldwide 9 citations · 20 works
  4. 4 David Hale United States · #1,331,510 worldwide 29 citations · 23 works
  5. 5 Yiran Wang United States · #1,382,202 worldwide 20 citations · 21 works
  6. 6 Mary Magee Quinn United States · #1,520,808 worldwide 34 citations · 16 works
  7. 7 R. Matson United States · #1,596,409 worldwide 3 citations · 20 works
All ranked researchers at Leidos (United States)

Which keywords describe research at Leidos (United States)?

By fractional works in 2022–2025, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Epidemiology, Vaccine, Trauma, Mental Health, Psychometric Evaluation, Immune Response, Cancer Risk and Immunity.

▲ more of its work than of the world’s◆ about the world’s share▼ less than the world’s

Size is fractional works in 2022–2025 in the topics tagged with each word; colour is the word's share of this institution's work against its share of the world's. The 40 words are chosen for being large and distinctive. Each links to the topic it comes from most.

All 40 words, with their numbers
  1. Epidemiology34▲ 2.1×88 topics
  2. Machine Learning18▲ 1.35×35 topics
  3. Mental Health14▲ 2.4×21 topics
  4. Deep Learning14◆ 1.02×35 topics
  5. Vaccine12▲ 7.4×9 topics
  6. Public Health11▲ 1.83×33 topics
  7. Immune Response10▲ 4.3×14 topics
  8. Cancer10▲ 1.75×34 topics
  9. Trauma9▲ 11×6 topics
  10. Immunity9▲ 5.3×10 topics
  11. Psychometric Evaluation8▲ 22×2 topics
  12. Cancer Risk8▲ 8.4×6 topics
  13. Resilience7▲ 3.7×6 topics
  14. Risk Assessment7▲ 2.6×12 topics
  15. SARS-CoV-27▲ 5.1×5 topics
  16. Pathogenesis6▲ 3.1×18 topics
  17. Physical Fitness6▲ 11×2 topics
  18. Cognitive Therapy6▲ 14×2 topics
  19. Injuries6▲ 48×2 topics
  20. Occupational Exposure6▲ 27×2 topics
  21. Posttraumatic Stress Disorder6▲ 54×1 topic
  22. Psychological Treatment6▲ 54×1 topic
  23. Emergency Responders6▲ 84×1 topic
  24. Firefighters6▲ 84×1 topic
  25. Antiretroviral Therapy5▲ 7.8×6 topics
  26. Dynamic Nuclear Polarization5▲ 43×2 topics
  27. ACE2 Receptor5▲ 5.1×2 topics
  28. Mutation5▲ 6.6×5 topics
  29. Coronavirus5▲ 5.8×2 topics
  30. High Power Terahertz Sources5▲ 88×1 topic
  31. Vacuum Electronics5▲ 88×1 topic
  32. Viral Transmission5▲ 8.1×4 topics
  33. Cognitive Performance5▲ 11×4 topics
  34. Occupational Safety5▲ 12×2 topics
  35. Fatigue4▲ 8.9×2 topics
  36. Antibodies4▲ 18×2 topics
  37. antibody4▲ 9.3×1 topic
  38. spike protein4▲ 9.3×1 topic
  39. Shift Work4▲ 31×1 topic
  40. Sleep Deprivation4▲ 31×1 topic

Which research topics does Leidos (United States) publish most on?

By volume in 2022–2025: Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Research, Occupational Health and Performance, Gyrotron and Vacuum Electronics Research and SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 Research.

Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Research: 6 fractional worksOccupational Health and Performance: 6 fractional worksGyrotron and Vacuum Elec…5Gyrotron and Vacuum Electronics Research: 5 fractional worksSARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 …4SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 Research: 4 fractional worksSleep and Work-Related Fatigue: 4 fractional worksHIV Research and Treatment: 3 fractional worksTraumatic Brain Injury R…3Traumatic Brain Injury Research: 3 fractional worksSpaceflight effects on biology: 2 fractional worksMicrowave Engineering and Waveguides: 2 fractional worksParticle accelerators and beam dynamics: 2 fractional works
Clinical PsychologyOccupational TherapyAtomic and Molecular Physics, and OpticsInfectious Diseases6 others

Area is fractional works; colour is the subfield each topic belongs to.

  1. 1 Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Research Clinical Psychology 6 works
  2. 2 Occupational Health and Performance Occupational Therapy 6 works
  3. 3 Gyrotron and Vacuum Electronics Research Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics 5 works
  4. 4 SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 Research Infectious Diseases 4 works
  5. 5 Sleep and Work-Related Fatigue Experimental and Cognitive Psychology 4 works
  6. 6 HIV Research and Treatment Virology 3 works
  7. 7 Traumatic Brain Injury Research Epidemiology 3 works
  8. 8 Spaceflight effects on biology Physiology 2 works
  9. 9 Microwave Engineering and Waveguides Electrical and Electronic Engineering 2 works
  10. 10 Particle accelerators and beam dynamics Aerospace Engineering 2 works

How open and international is its research?

Against the world’s own shares — the tick on each track. Both are shares of its output, so they sit on one scale and can be read against each other as well as against the world.

openly available58.1%not open41.9%

World: 28% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors25.2%domestic only74.8%

World: 19% is written across borders.

How has Leidos (United States)'s research output changed?

Output in 2018–2022 was 18% higher than in 2013–2017.

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The same series as a ribbon — one cell per year, darker for more. The line above answers how much; this answers when.

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